http://intheboatshed.net/2008/11/09/heckstall-smith-and-du-boulay-on-the-origin-of-19th-century-racing-yachts/ Journalist and writer Gavin Atkin's weblog about boats, boatbuilding and restoration Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:29:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/11/09/heckstall-smith-and-du-boulay-on-the-origin-of-19th-century-racing-yachts/comment-page-1/#comment-20244 Captain Clean Boat Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:44:42 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=4300#comment-20244 Nice and usefull post, thanks, this is one for my bookmarks! Nice and usefull post, thanks, this is one for my bookmarks!

]]> http://intheboatshed.net/2008/11/09/heckstall-smith-and-du-boulay-on-the-origin-of-19th-century-racing-yachts/comment-page-1/#comment-19624 Wood Working Vise » Blog Archive » Wood working crafts Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:00:50 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/?p=4300#comment-19624 [...] Wood engraving The Yacht Race - A Sketch from the Deck of a Competing Yacht, was published in Harper’s Weekly in  1872. Taken from the Wikimedia Commons Although Charles II was almost as enthusiastic about yachting as he was about his many mistresses, his collection of 16 yachts do not seem to have had much of an influence on later racers. From their researches including studying Clark’s History of Yachting up to the year 1815, Heckstall-Smith and Du Boulay say later racing yachts de Wood Working News… [...] [...] Wood engraving The Yacht Race – A Sketch from the Deck of a Competing Yacht, was published in Harper’s Weekly in  1872. Taken from the Wikimedia Commons Although Charles II was almost as enthusiastic about yachting as he was about his many mistresses, his collection of 16 yachts do not seem to have had much of an influence on later racers. From their researches including studying Clark’s History of Yachting up to the year 1815, Heckstall-Smith and Du Boulay say later racing yachts de Wood Working News… [...]

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